Allen Cemetery, Livingston Parish, Louisiana
File prepared by Sherry Sanford




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Allen Cemetery
South of Denham Springs, Livingston Parish, Louisiana
T. 7S R. 3E
Section 50

Oldest birth date from inscription:  Lewis Allin (No. 4)
June 12, 1805 - Nov. 28, 1873

Oldest burial date from inscription:  Mary Ann Allen Harris (No. 2)
Mar. 9, 1832 - Dec. 26, 1866

1980, Published by Edward Livingston Historical Association, Inc., P.O. Box
67, Livingston, La. 70754-0067

1. Joseph Henry Allen
June 19, 1836 - Oct. 22, 1915

2. Mary Ann Allen
Wife of Hardy Harris
Mar. 9, 1832 - Dec. 26, 1866

3. Elizabeth
Wife of Lewis Allin
Jan. 7, 1810 - Dec. 4, 1880

4. Lewis Allin
June 12, 1805 - Nov. 28, 1873

Children of Joseph Henry Allen and his wife, Jane Elizabeth Forrest:

1. Elizabeth
Stillborn 1890

2. Joseph Henry Allen
Dec. 12, 1878 - Aug. 15, 1881

3. William Robert Moody Allen
Nov. 26, 1870 - Dec. 30, 1875

4. Ida O'Quilla Allen
Jan. 10, 1868
Aug. 10, 1869

Children of Robert Moody and Missouri Allen

Five or six including Bell and Forrest

The Nickens graves are just to the north of the children's section.

The Allen Graveyard is located on the Anita Durand Buess tract of the Charles
Nelson Durand estate (formerly of Judge Joseph Henry Allen).  That part of the
tract on which the graveyard is located was formerly the Nickens Place, and
the whold of Section 50, T. 7S, R.3E and Section 69, T. 7S, R. 2E was
originally the Singleton Headright.

The cemetery is at Buess Turn or junction of Harris Road with that part of
Louisiana 1032 known as 4H Club Road and that part formerly called Cockerham
or Myrtle Road.  Both parts were components of the original Baton Rouge and
Springfield Public Road.

The first person buried in the cemetery were members of the Nickens family but
there are no tombstones for them.  Crepe Myrtle and Cape Jasmine were planted
over the graves.

Source:  Information compiled by Mrs. Anita Durand Buess, Rt. 1, Box 81-A,
Benton, Kansas 67017, on November 15, 1977.